“I don’t think I’m an exceptionally bad reader. I suspect that many people, maybe even most, are like me. We read and… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
Once I had started, I discovered the secret pleasure of writing a novel. It's such an immersive, deep commitment. With short stories,… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
I dislike that premise implies that a fiction writer is incapable of dreaming up stories that can bring readers to tears, that… — Leslie Pietrzyk Copy Share Image
Beautifully written, intensely passionate and gripping, FALLEN grabbed me from the first sentence and didn’t let go. Its eerie future world and… — Linnea Sinclair Copy Share Image
I don't think Donald Barthelme would have minded being called a confusing writer. Confusion was a favorite subject for him in his… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
The writing is - I'm free from pain. It's the place where I live; it's where I have control; it's where nobody… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
a writer doesn't only need the time when he's actually writing - he or she has got to have time to think… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
I think the term "artist's novel" for me has referred to writing which supports an art practice or a more specifically a… — Jill Magid Copy Share Image
It seems to me that literature is giving way a little bit to the immediacy of other diversions, other forms of entertainment.… — James Salter Copy Share Image
Nothing ensures the success of the child more in the society than being read to from infancy to young adulthood. Reading books… — Anita Silvey Copy Share Image
Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold,… — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
The writing of a novel is taking life as it already exists, not to report it but to make an object, toward… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“[D]on't ever apologise to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that's what they're there… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Reading things that are relevant to the facts of your life is of limited value. The facts are, after all, only the… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“You better [start writing] now because you know how to write, and you have fingers, and you have this one life, and… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
She is never alone when she has Her Books. Books, to her, are Friends. Give her Shakespeare or Jane Austen, Meredith or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I write books because I have always been fascinated by stories and language, and because I love thinking about what makes people… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
When you're writing non-fiction, you go as far as you can go, and then ethically you have to stop. You can't go.… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
Only when I make movements away from the tribe of indie art and literature. Maybe that's something important for me to keep… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
“Some people buried their fears in food, she knew, and some in booze, and some in planning elaborate engagements and weddings and… — Jenny Colgan Copy Share Image
In the mind of all, fiction, in the logical sense, has been the coin of necessity;—in that of poets of amusement—in that… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
I suppose we think euphemistically that all writers write because they have something to say that is truthful and honest and pointed… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
Writing for me always requires trickery. Tricking myself into sitting down, letting words tumble out until you find the good ones. It's… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
I read when I get up in the morning, when I can during the day and every single evening. Most of my… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
“I am a book-collector, a proud avocationist in what Eric Quayle (wrongly) asserts to be the "least vicious" of hobbies (we are… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
I have always discouraged young writers from self-publishing, by which I mean going to a vanity publisher and spending your hard earned… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
“It’s kind of sad how much value I was placing in the heaps of books I owned. Obviously it was more than… — Joshua Fields Millburn Copy Share Image
“For books are not absolutely dead things, but ...do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“As with most things, my approach to writing has been entirely ass-backwards. I first had to become everything but a writer --… — Quentin R. Bufogle Copy Share Image
Then I celebrated my Wall of Books. I counted the volumes on my twenty-foot-long modernist bookshelf to make sure none had been… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
My prescription for writer's block is to face the fact that there is no such thing… Writing well is difficult, but one… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
We live too much in books and not enough in nature, and we are very much like the simpleton of a Pliny… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
“I don't have a diary, I don't write things into a diary. I imprint myself into the sky and when the sunlight… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
Writing of the narrative kind, and perhaps all writing, is motivated deep down, by a fear or and fascination with mortality -… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I mean, when I was young I could write all through the night and I loved to work late into the night.… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
The writing life requires courage, patience, persistence, empathy, openness, and the ability to deal with rejection. It requires the willingness to be… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
If only you’d remember before ever you sit down to write that you’ve been a reader long before you were ever a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Creating one single story often requires experimenting and planning and falling on your literary rear more than once before you find the… — Nancy Lam Copy Share Image
Finish. The difference between being a writer and being a person of talent is the discipline it takes to apply the seat… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Why do you write?' Because I love words and stories so much. Because I would be grief stricken every day of my… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
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